Al-Muhajabah's Movable Type Tips

When you're making a printable version of your blog pages, it's a good idea to list the URLs for all your hyperlinks. A neat way of doing this is to create footnotes to each link that list the URL.

I'm using the StripTags plugin for this, although since I set it up, the Collect plugin has come out, which has this functionality and much more.

If you do decide to use StripTags, here's the code:

Around the entry body:

<MTStripTags a="/ ([N])" collect="a" keep_tags="1"><$MTEntryBody regex="1"$></MTStripTags>

One of the problems with the StripTags plugin is that it strips all HTML unless you use the keep_tags attribute. Here I'm telling it to collect information from the <a> anchor tags and to add a footnote like (1) after each closing tag.

Then, where you want the footnotes to show up:

<MTIfStrippedTags tag="a">
<div >Footnotes</div>
<div ><MTStrippedTags tag="a"><$MTStrippedTagN$> <$MTStrippedTagAttr attr="href"$><br></MTStrippedTags></div>
</MTIfStrippedTags>

For each <a> tag that was collected, this outputs the appropriate URL from the href attribute.